HAVERHILL — Ask any candlepin bowler and they’ll tell you it’s not easy to get a strike. It’s even more difficult if you can’t see the pins and you’ve slowed down a bit due to age. So ...

Candlepin’s smaller pins and balls (which also lack finger holes) make it much more difficult than traditional tenpin bowling. Plus, even when you do manage to knock pins over, they’re not ...

Though candlepin bowling used to be a New England institution, the last alley closed in Worcester in 2020. "Candlepin is such a great family sport, friends. We want leagues to come back.

ERVING — On a recent weekday afternoon, all 16 lanes at the French King Bowling Center were silent. The place was empty except for two teenage boys sharing a basket of fries in the lounge. Open ...

For the first half century of the sport's history, pins were set manually by workers positioned at the end of each lane. This changed in 1947, when two lawyers, Howard Dowd and Lionel Barrow ...

Mar. 14—HAVERHILL — Ask any candlepin bowler and they'll tell you it's not easy to get a strike. It's even more difficult if you can't see the pins and you've slowed down a bit due to age. So ...